Chinese Company Forces Employees to Eat Live Worms for Not Meeting Sales Target
Chinese companies have been known to subject their employees to some of the most unusual and degrading punishments imaginable, but this latest one takes the cake. According to recent new reports, a company Hanzhong, Shaanxi province, decided to punish who failed to meet their sales targets by feeding them a disgusting cocktail of baijou liquor and live […]
Japan’s Unique Museum of Stones Shaped Like Human Faces
Chinsekikan, or The Hall of Curious Rocks is a unique museum in the Japanese town Saitama, just outside Tokyo, where visitors can admire close to 1,000 rocks that resemble human faces. This outlandish tourist attraction is the work of the late Shozo Hayama, a rock enthusiast who spent 50 years of his life collecting strange-looking […]
Ejiao – The Chinese Miracle Cure Decimating the World’s Donkey Population
Ejiao, or donkey skin gelatin, is considered one of the three treasures of traditional Chinese medicine. It is used to treat a wide range of ailments from simple colds to insomnia and impotence, and demand in the Chinese market is soaring like never before. Millions of donkeys are slaughtered all around the world and their […]
Russian Politician Sacked for Recording Workout Video in Funeral Parlor
A regional Russian official was recently expelled from the ruling United Russia political party for recording a bizarre workout video at the workplace – a creepy funeral parlor – and posting it on her Instagram account. You can say that she gives the phrase ‘dying to lose weight’ a whole new meaning. Anastasia Myakina was […]
Former Math Teacher Banned by Bookmakers for Winning Too Much
A former math teacher from Camden Town, England, claims betting shops won’t take his bets anymore after he devised a system that guarantees he wins every time without any risk of loss. Richard Saul, who calls himself the “wizard of odds”, claims that he has bet tens of thousands of pounds on horse races over the last […]
Man Allegedly Lives with Snake He Thinks Is His Dead Girlfriend Reincarnated
According to a Facebook post that recently went viral, a man devastated by the death of his girlfriend grew very attached to a 10-foot cobra which he believes is his lost partner reincarnated. For the last couple of years, the two have been inseparable, doing everything together, from watching TV to going to the gym. […]
Company Delays Employees’ Monthly Salary So They Wouldn’t Spend It on Junk on Chinese Black Friday
This year’s Singles Day, China’s version of Black Friday, is scheduled to break sales records, but the employees of one catering company in Chonqing will not be able to spend as much money on discounted items as they would have liked, because their employer decided to hold their paychecks until after the holiday, so they […]
Russian Officials Use Photoshop to Fake City Cleanup, Again
Russian authorities in the city of St. Petersburg recently came under fire after it was discovered that they had used digital editing software like Adobe Photoshop to fake the cleanup of a local lamp post. Last week, a resident of St. Petersburg submitted a request on the local government official website asking that a lamp […]
Guys Attend Bachelor Party, Come Home with Adorable Puppies
When most guys attend bachelor parties, the only thing they come home with is a nasty hangover, but groom-to-be Mitchel Craddock and seven of his friends each returned with an adorable puppy. Craddock of Vicksburg, Michigan, took family and friends to the woods in Tennessee for a 5-day bachelor getaway, but on their first morning there, they noticed […]
Man Lives as Full Time Grey Jedi
46-year-old Kevin Cottam is not the world’s biggest Star Wars fan, but for the last two years he has never left home without his iconic Jedi robe and trusty lightsaber. He is the UK’s only full-time Grey Jedi. Cottam says he became a follower of Jediism six years ago, after doing some research online. He had become frustrated […]
Baby Becomes Fourth Generation of Her Family to Inherit Striking Patch of White Hair
18-month-old MilliAnna Worthy, from Ridgeland, South Carolina, was born with a white patch of hair right above the forehead, a very rare trait caused by poliosis, which creates a lack of pigment in the patch of hair and the skin around it. But even more unusual than the striking trait is the fact that it has been in MilliAnna’s family […]
Hong Kong’s Unique Sanctuary of Discarded Deities
In Hong Kong, when people damage their statues of deities or simply replace them with newer ones, they don’t throw them away. Instead they leave them on the side of the road for people to worship or take them home. One man has been picking them up for over 17 years, and today his colorful collection is one […]
Desperate Young Woman Sells Herself Online to Help Cancer-Stricken Mother
In a desperate attempt to raise money for her sick mother’s cancer treatment, a 19-year-old girl in China recently posted a message on the Asian country’s most popular social media platform, WeChat, saying that she was selling herself to the highest bidder. In her post, Cao Mengyuan says she was born and raised in a rural […]
Ukrainian Pensioner Turns Apartment Building Staircase into Awe-Inspiring 17th Century Chateau
Vladimir Chaika, a pensioner from the Ukrainian city of Kiev, spent 15 years turning the staircase of his Communist era apartment building into an artistic masterpiece reminiscent of 17th and 18th century chateaus. Vladimir says that he had always been fascinated by the interior design style of 1600s and 1700s castles and estates, and having […]
Chinese Couple Raise 3.7-Meter-Long Python as Their Child
An elderly couple in Haikou, China’s Hainan Province, have been sharing their home with a 60 kilogram, 3.7-meter-long python for seven years, raising it as their child and even taking it for walks around their neighborhood. 68-year-old Shi Jimin, a retired meat processing worker, adopted the python in 2009, to save it from certain death. A fish […]